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In keeping with his idea of Jesus Christ as the greatest revolutionary of all time, Pier Paolo Pasolini considered casting Jack Kerouac or Allen Ginsberg in the role. He changed his mind when he met Enrique Irazoqui, a Spanish student of literature, who has written a thesis about Pasolini's novel "Ragazzi di vita" and was very curious to meet him.See more »

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Anachronisms: When they are taking Christ down from the cross, in the distance you can see a car driving around a corner.See more »

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Christ:Capharnaum, do you hope to be lifted to heaven? You shall fall low as hell.See more »

I must say, as a new IMDb user I find this place to express one views a
rather welcome find. Cathartic to say the least. Certain films haunt
me. "The Gospel According to St Matthew" is one of them. The only
possible explanation is the passion of its maker. Everything about it
is so real that I remember the first time I saw it, I felt I had met
Jesus. My relationship with Jesus had been torturous at best. Raised
catholic by very catholic pre- Vatican Council parents. So, part of my
rebellion had always been underlined by moving away from that pathology
as far away as possible. Pasolini however, a Marxist homosexual, showed
me a human side of the man I was suppose to follow that made sense,
that touched me. Enrique Irazoqui plays Jesus in a way that may explain
everything. He is just a guy but in his eyes, in his eyes there is
something I've never seen before. Compassion without fake undertones.
It chilled me. I loved him. I wanted to follow him. Pasolini wasn't
trying to sell me anything, he wasn't trying to convert anyone he was
doing what an artist, a real artist does. He was sharing his vision
with me, with us. When people talk about movie experiences, this is the
film that comes to my mind first. I'm glad to have to opportunity to
share this with you.

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